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Emperor of Japan

Head of government or state · National government

Emperor of Japan is an entity described in industry reference data. It is not linked to any risk indications in our database, and it has not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Position				[sources]
Name	Emperor · Emperor of Japan				[sources]
Country	Japan				[sources]
Subnational area	not available				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q208233				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-08	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2023-08-16

Relationships

Position holders
Holder	Start date	End date
Naruhito PEP	2019-05-01	-

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons282,564

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories350,779

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,964

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions524,950

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-88af3e14d5bc771058549213855740502317e4e0 · unprot-1eb5e17f35546f445c727956c6ad24872f52a181

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